Digital Government

A Simple Tweak to Google Search Now Helps Veterans to Find Jobs

Only about half of all veterans in the U.S. participate in the workforce at all.

Digital Government

A Good Keyboard Is the Ultimate Workplace Luxury

It's the item you interact with more than anything else in your workplace.

Artificial Intelligence

Microsoft Wants to Nudge Us To Be More Productive. Do We Want Its Help?

Clippy gets an AI makeover.

Digital Government

Working in an Open Office? Set Rules About Noise With Your Neighbors

Setting boundaries is important.

Cybersecurity

Cyber Firm Defends DNC Hacking Alert That Turned Out to be a False Alarm

Fast responses to cyber threats and perfect accuracy don’t always go hand in hand, a cyber pro who worked on the alleged DNC hacking attempt says.

Modernization

White House Unveils More Details About Proposed Modernization Center

Officials expect to establish the future-focused GEAR Center in the next year.

Digital Government

Apple, IBM, and Google Don’t Care Anymore if You Went to College

Companies will hire the candidates whose experience and skills best suit them for the job.

Ideas

Key Areas Governments Can Benefit from Social Media

Real-time communications with citizens are just one of the advantages of a social media plan.

Emerging Tech

Slack Was Able to Become a $7 Billion Company by Playing Nice With Others

Slack’s ethos is one of inclusion

Emerging Tech

Teaching Kids to Code During the Summer—for $1,000 a Week

Are private summer camps exacerbating tech's diversity problem?

Emerging Tech

This Desk Changes When It Senses Your Stress At Work

The desk is a combination of technology, psychology, and design.

Ideas

The Federal Workforce is Shrinking—Let Technology Help

Agencies could turn to platforms that help manage the information employees currently manage and process.

Ideas

How to Improve Federal Networks for a Better End-User Experience

Agencies can modernize as they optimize.

Digital Government

How to Connect With Your Manager

Help deliver what matters.

Digital Government

How to Persuade Your Company’s Product Team to Build Something

Communicating with engineers, designers and data scientists doesn't have to be difficult.

Digital Government

USDA Wants One Hub to Connect Agency Leaders to Every Employee

The agency wants to pull disparate intranets together and allow two-way communications with employees.

Cybersecurity

One Agency Plans to Lock Employees In a Room Until They Learn Cyber Hygiene

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will be locking employees in escape rooms to test their knowledge of cybersecurity.

Digital Government

This Lifehack Will Change Your Life—If You Can Stand It

It's disarmingly simple.

Digital Government

NSA Director: The Agency 'Sells Itself' to Potential Recruits

Nakasone tells industry group of 92 percent retention rate, need for diversity.

Ideas

Governments Need to Re-tool the IT Workforce (Again)

Leaders should encourage change agents, and those government workers will need to develop and maintain certain skills and capabilities.